Subj : Re: TriBoot System Question
To   : comp.os.linux,alt.comp.linux
From : jch
Date : Sun Sep 19 2004 03:28 pm

"Mutant" <mutant1@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:pan.2004.09.19.17.30.13.707631@hotmail.com...
> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:47:16 +0000, Lenard wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:28:15 -0400, jch wrote:
>>
>>> I've had a dual boot system (XP and FEdora) for a few months now so I'm
>>> still pretty new to Linux. I'd like to experiment with another distro
>>> (Suse).  Are there any special tricks or concerns in adding a 3rd OS? I
>>> guess the current Linux partition (Fedora) contains the grub.conf which
>>> gives me my 2 boot-up choices. Is getting this file configured to add
>>> SUSE pretty straight forward? Thanks.
>>
>> Yep, adding the option to boot into SuSE is a simple edit (as root) of 
>> the
>> /boot/grub/grub.conf (FC2) file.
>>
>> You can share the swap partition between both distro's also. Just make
>> sure that the installation of SuSE does not overwrite your currently
>> installed OS's. Also make sure that that SuSE does not install a boot
>> loader, you already have two ;)
>
>
> You don't need to do that as SuSE will do it all for you during set-up.

True!  Proceeding with Suse intallation turned out to be a piece of cake.

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